CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Birth and Boyhood - Francis Street in the Past - Te Deum for George III. - Dr. Kenrick - Cardinal MacCabe - "Liberty Birds" - The White Quakers - Dr. Flanagan and his Art Galleries - Rev. Patrick Murray, D.D. - Father Smith and his Practical Jokes - Anecdotes - The Lazarites - Castleknock - Donnybrook Fair 1-22
CHAPTER II.
"The Repeal Year" - Maynooth College entered - Peel endows it with 80,000 a Year - Dr. O'Hanlon - Dr. Murray - Destructive and Constructive Theologians - Anecdotes - Rev. Nicholas Callan - The Dunboyne House - The Round-robin 28-82
CHAPTER III.
Ordination and First Appointment - Dean Meyler's Dinners - Archbishop Murray - Tom Moore - P. V. Fitz-Patrick - Smock Alley Presbytery Fifty Years Ago - Rev. Andrew O'Connell - Father Meehan and the Fiery Chariot of Elias - An Iron-clamped Coffin - Canon Roche - Zozimus - McCarthy, the Poet - Saul's Court - Father Healy, Curate of Bray - Tinnahinch 88-49
CHAPTER IV.
Archbishop Cullen - Rev. Alexander Roache - Forty-three Chapels burnt in the Troubles - Kilmacanogue - Rev. Dr. Miley - Father Trevor's Blunder - Anecdote - Father Lavelle - Dean Lee, P.P., Bray - Anecdote - The Brothers Fry - Loretto - Father Healy as a Confessor 50-66
CHAPTER V.
Administrator of St. Peter's, Little Bray - Alzog on Father Healy's Chapel - Visit of Cardinal Cullen - "Enter ; its Grandeur overwhelms you not" - Anecdote - The Duke of Connaught - General Sir George Cockbum - Anecdotes - Sir W. Wilde - An Episcopal Vacancy - Mrs. O'Reilly Dease - "Tristram Shandy" - Lord Fingall - Dame Dease's Recollections - The Gallows at Trim - Matthew O'Reilly Dease - Father Healy gets him elected M.P. for Louth - Rev. Samuel Cotton and his Umbrella 67-87
CHAPTER VI.
Anecdotes - "The Heart that has truly loved never forgets" - "The Devil's Glen" - Lord Mayor Durdin - "A Jackass in a Basket of Greens" - The Dargle - Mr. Justice Crampton - A Dinner at St. Valerie - Canon Forde, V.G. - Death of Father Healy's Sister, a Nun - A Dame in Bearded Majesty - Parish Priest of Little Bray - A Death at the Altar - A Bishop in Partibus - Anecdotes - Father Healy's Theological Knowledge - Amusing Incident at Trinity College 88-110
CHAPTER VII.
Mr. Justice Keogh - Lecture on Milton - A Great Row - Jessie Keogh - Her Betrothal and Premature Death - The Galway Judgment - Sensation produced - A Meeting of Protest by the Parish Priests, headed by Cardinal Cullen - Father Healy absent - A Movement to buy for him the House in which he lived - Judge Keogh finds a Picture of a Coffin under his Dinnerplate - His Death 111-189
CHAPTER VIII.
A Narrow Escape - Anecdotes - The Plymouth Brethren - Lord Chancellor Brewster - Sir Robert Stewart - Handel's Organ - Isaac Butt - Monckton Milnes - Dublin Castle - Anecdotes - Lord Ashbourne - Sir Redvers Buller - Sir H. Campbell Bannerman - "Sparks" 140-166
CHAPTER IX.
An Irish Election - An Action at Law and Father Healy's Evidence - Major O'Reilly, of Knock Abbey - A Rough Reply - The Breakfast at the Royal St. George's Yacht Club - Sensational Incident - Exit O'Reilly Dease - His Strange Will 167-168
CHAPTER X.
Rev. Charles Meehan - Traits of his Acute Cynicism - How Father Healy sought to correct and cure him - Bishop Moran - The "Penny Warbler" preferred to Calderon - Lisdoon varna - Clarence Mangan - Trip to Paris - Father Kenyon - John O'Toole - A Deathbed 164-186
CHAPTER XI.
Dean Neville - His Interesting Career - The Land League - Retort to Dean Quirk - Father Tom Burke - How Canon Pope's Monologue was silenced - Father Ring - Stories - The Tipsy Jarvey - Canon Harold - Anecdotes - An Enfant de Marie - Recollections of Father Healy by his Late Curate 186-209
CHAPTER XII.
Social Intercourse Poisoned - "The Evangelist of Peace" - Lord Randolph Churchill - Field - Marshal Lord Wolseley on the Genial Padre -The Dinners at Little Bray - W. Lysaght Griffin - Lefanu - Dr. Mahaffy - The Venus of Milo 210-221
CHAPTER XIII.
Lord Fitz william - Breakfast with Gladstone - "Indulgences" - Visit to Rome - A Bad Time in the Mediterranean - Alexandria - Cairo and the Pyramids - The Dragoman - Heliopolis, the Cradle of Healy's Race - The Nile - A Pleasant Acquaintance formed - Luxor - A Treat in a Tram 222-230
CHAPTER XIV.
The Egyptian Traveller entertained - A Budget of Stories - More Bon-mot8 - Canon Farrell - Bennett Little - Knock - Visit of the Editor of Punch - A Great Shock 231-246
CHAPTER XV.
From Grave to Gay - A Startling Telegram - Father Healy and the English Doctor - Edward Guinness, Lord Iveagh - The Prince of Wales in Ireland - The Orang-outang - Rev. Samuel Haughton, S.F.T.C.D. - The Addition of Cabinteely to Little Bray - Trip to America - Granby the Comedian and "A Kiss in the Dark" - Cardinal MacCabe and the Canonry - A Hoax - Father O'Dwyer - Lord Londonderry 247-266
CHAPTER XVI.
Sir John Banks, K.C.B. - Bright Days in London - Bute House - Historic Memories - Lunch with Punch - Lady Salisbury - A Toss-up for the Mitre - "Think not my Spirits are always as Light" 267-280
CHAPTER XVII.
On Dogs and Cats - Archbishop Lord Plunket - Mr. Balfour - The Coercion Act - Lady Leslie - Anecdotes - Monsignore Persico's Mission to Ireland - The Prince of Saxe- Weimar - Harrogate - Carlsbad - The Duchess of Montrose, alms Mr. Manton - Mr. Parnell - "The Lot fell on Matthias" 281-301
CHAPTER XVIII.
Tour in Spain - Paul Aubert - Alarming Illness of Father Healy - The Riviera - In the Pope's Debt - Monte Carlo - A Papal Present - Letters from Hell - Loretto versus Roulette - Lady Hilda Dundas - Lord Houghton - Narrow Escape of Father Healy - The "Twopenny Shave" - Castle Boro - Carlsbad - Buxton 302-317
CHAPTER XIX.
The Expected Canonry - Promotion to the Parish of Ballybrack and Killiney - Shanganagh - Lord Powers-court's Memorandum - Rostrevor, the Irish Mentone - Cardinal Logue - Cahermce Horse-fair 318-341
Appendix 342-347

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